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Originally Posted by John Channing
You're right.
HOW DARE Ubisoft try to prevent hackers from cracking the product so that people can steal it instead of paying for it. What was Ubisoft thinking?
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Sorry John, but if you still think the main aim of OSP is to stop piracy then you haven't followed the discussions of the last month closely.
I'm not saying pirates have a right to attack those servers. But neither has Ubisoft the right to introduce spyware/controlware on our computers which only annoys paying customers while the pirates are already playing a cracked version.
The main aim of OSP and similar DRM methods is simple: Ban resale of games, sell DLC content trough the system, and monitor your customer base so you can target your marketing efforts better. Few of these DRM systems ever prevent piracy, so if that was the reason behind it, they should have been dropped by now.
Like I said, I'm not in favor of software pirates. All my games are legally bought. But if it takes a bunch of hacking cheapskates to show a bunch of corporate beancounters what happens when you violate basic customer rights I won't be sad about it.